>Maybe we should start to look at this as automatically assigning album >artist instead of automatic detection of compilation albums. > Doesn't it already do this by storing an album artist in albums.contributor (albeit if there are more than one, it would need to find the album artists via the contributor_album link table where the role is 5 for album artist).
>In my mind it's a good thing that you don't have to put extra >information in tags that doesn't make sense, for example COMPILATION >and ALBUMARTIST="Various Artists" tags. So if SBS already handles this >automatically, I'm not sure it's worth to change the scanning process >to remove it. Or is there a huge performance issue in large libraries ? >In my library it's like 1% of the scanning time so the performance isn't >a good argument for me. > No it's not a performance issue, and it could be optimised further anyway if it were. I think the more album artist or compilation tags that are present, the less work it has to do to automatically determine (i.e. it just does the ones where it hasn't been manually set). _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
